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Yuryi Alexandrovich Zadneprovskyi in the history of Kyrgyz archaeology
Yu. A. Zadneprovskyi was from the generation of those who had a hard life experience of war years. Therefore, when he came to archeology, he already had hard war years behind him, wounds, concussion, harsh post-blockade Leningrad. And when in the summer of 1946, after finishing his first year, he first got into the archeological expedition of A.N. Bernshtam, who was conducting research in the southern regions of Kyrgyzstan, the sunny and fertile Fergana Valley, no less fertile mountain-valley territory surrounding it, could not help but surprise and attract special attention of Yu. A. Zadneprovskyi. After the very first expedition and communication with the amazing A. N. Bernshtam, he decided…
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Galina Anatolyevna Brykina. A life devoted to the study of Fergana.
Galina Anatolyevna Brykina was born on January 15, 1929 in Yelets, Lipetsk Region, Russia. In 1953, she graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University and in the same year was hired as a senior laboratory assistant at the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where she worked until the end of her life. In 1954, she was transferred to the position of junior research fellow, and in 1979 – to the position of senior research fellow at the Department of Scythian-Sarmatian Archaeology. Even in her student years, having joined the expedition of A.N. Bernshtam, G.A. Brykina became interested in archeology. Gaining experience in field research…
